This session was really a good demo of a plethora of Lync 2010 (AKA OCS 14) features from the end-user perspective, and some changes on the back-end. The slide deck wasn't available to download for this session, so listed below are only a fraction of the topics covered in this session. The...
This was a great session which covered the tight integration between Outlook 2010 and Exchange 2010. In order to take advantage of many of the new features in the 2010 releases, you need both Outlook 2010 and Exchange 2010. "Better together" features include:- Ignore a conversation – Deletes all existing...
This week I'm at TechED 2010 in New Orleans, and as part of the conference package I signed up for a pre-conference session on Exchange Server 2010. This was an eight hour session on Sunday covering a whole gamut of Exchange 2010 topics. The two presenters actually wrote a book,...
Wow and Exchange 2010 was just recently released and now there's rollup 1. You can download it here. Fairly short list of bug fixes, but involves the crashing of some Exchange services so probably best to install the patch.
Microsoft is hosting a few 'launch' events later this year for Windows 7, Server 2008 R2 and Exchange 2010. If you register and attend, you get a free copy of Windows 7 (Professional?). See this link for all the dates and locations.
In some organizations, in particular the Department of Defense, we are required to use CAC (SmartCard) authentication to access a variety of resources internally and externally. At my previous job I really loved using Outlook Anywhere (formerlly known as RPC over HTTP), from literally anywhere without a VPN. Unfortunately, Microsoft...
In case you don't subscribe to the Exchange team's blog, today they announced rollup 8 for Exchange server 2007 SP1. You can read their announcement here. If you are running Windows Server 2008, you will now be glad to know rollup 8 automates the kernel mode authentication configuration required for...
One of the greatly enhanced features in Exchange 2010 is the ability to automatically RMS protect messages via transport rules. For example, you could automatically encrypt all messages between HR and Legal. Or you could write a rule that searches message content and prevents forwarding if the string "company confidential"...
Here's a short list of some of the new features in Exchange 2010. This is certainly not a comprehensive list, but gives you a flavor of the many enhancements. Built-in e-mail archiving, with full OWA and fat client access. Support for 10+GB mailboxes Shows OCS contacts and can send basic...
During one of the Exchange 2010 sessions at TechED 2009 I attended, Microsoft made what I think is a major announcement. Given a proper design, Microsoft no longer recommends RAID protected disks for your Exchange server and goes a step further and suggests using locally attached SATA drives.This is in...